Worth a watch, entertaining but disappointing still

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2013)

Great special effects, lots of action. That's what made it good.
Cheesy acting and script and predictable story was a little bit of a let down and not what I expected but probably intentional.
The commentary at the beginning bringing us up to date and making it feel like we are starting on the 2nd movie of a trilogy was the disappointing bit.
With movies like this we like to see it all beginning, the unexplained, the learning, the surprise and the 1st glimpse of the aliens/monsters but we start several years into the war.
Perhaps next movie is prequel but then again we know what happens as we were told so that wouldn't work. What would be cool was if they visited the Alien world some more.
I think Cloverfield could fit into this series though, the monster/alien had similar look about it and would explain where the Cloverfield monster came from lol.
I preferred the Godilla movies especially the latest ones where they build giant robot to fight the big monster....sound familiar? lol Overall I was entertained by Pacific Rim and it's worth a watch.